The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon(
Book
)123
editions published
between
2000
and
2017
in
9
languages
and held by
4,518 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
With this brilliant novel, the bestselling author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys gives us an exhilarating
triumph of language and invention, a stunning novel in which the tragicomic adventures of a couple of boy geniuses reveal
much about what happened to America in the middle of the twentieth century. Like Phillip Roth's American Pastoral or Don DeLillo's
Underworld, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a superb novel with epic sweep, spanning continents
and eras, a masterwork by one of America's finest writers. It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has
also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out
of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyn's
own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American
dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable
champion the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful
ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow of Hitler falls
across Europe and the world, the Golden Age of comic books has begun. The brilliant writing that has led critics to compare
Michael Chabon to John Cheever and Vladimir Nabokov is everywhere apparent in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Chabon
writes "like a magical spider, effortlessly spinning out elaborate webs of words that ensnare the reader," wrote Michiko Kakutani
of The New York Times about Wonder Boys-and here he has created, in Joe Kavalier, a hero for the century

The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel by Michael Chabon(
Book
)74
editions published
between
2006
and
2017
in
5
languages
and held by
3,955 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal Distric of Sitka, a "temporary" safe
haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel.
Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan
panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. For sixty years they
have been left alone, neglected and half-forgotten in a backwater of history. Now the District is set to revert to Alaskan
control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off
into the unknown. But homicide detective Meyer Landsman of the District Police has enough problems without worrying about
the upcoming Reversion. His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. He and his half-Tlingit partner,
Berko Shemets, can't catch a break in any of their outstanding cases. Landsman's new supervisor is the love of his life -
and also his worst nightmare. And in the cheap hotel where he has washed up, someone has just committed a murder - right under
Landsman's nose. Out of habit, obligation, and a mysterious sense that it somehow offers him a shot at redeeming himself,
Landsman begins to investigate the killing of his neighbor, a former chess prodigy. But when word comes down from on high
that the case is to be dropped immediately, Landsman soon finds himself contending with all the powerful forces of faith,
obsession, hopefulness, evil, and salvation that are his heritage - and with the unfinished business of his marriage to Bina
Gelbfish, the one person who understands his darkest fears. At once a gripping whodunit, a love story, an homage to 1940s
noir, and an exploration of the mysteries of exile and redemption, The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a novel only Michael Chabon
could have written. -- From dust jacket

Telegraph Avenue : a novel by Michael Chabon(
Book
)70
editions published
between
2012
and
2016
in
11
languages
and held by
3,220 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two
Oakland, California, families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation
films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and
Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the country's
richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell
doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archy's untethered
dad and a Black Panther-era crime

Moonglow : a novel by Michael Chabon(
Book
)46
editions published
between
2016
and
2018
in
4
languages
and held by
3,096 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"Moonglow unfolds as the deathbed confession of a man the narrator refers to only as 'my grandfather.' It is a tale of madness,
of war and adventure, of sex and marriage and desire, of existential doubt and model rocketry, of the shining aspirations
and demonic underpinnings of American technological accomplishment at midcentury, and, above all, of the destructive impact--and
the creative power--of keeping secrets and telling lies. It is a portrait of the difficult but passionate love between the
narrator's grandfather and his grandmother, an enigmatic woman broken by her experience growing up in war-torn France. It
is also a tour de force of speculative autobiography in which Chabon devises and reveals a secret history of his own imagination.
From the Jewish slums of prewar South Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal
utopia of New York's Wallkill prison, from the heyday of the space program to the twilight of the 'American Century, ' the
novel revisits an entire era through a single life and collapses a lifetime into a single week. A lie that tells the truth,
a work of fictional nonfiction, an autobiography wrapped in a novel disguised as a memoir, Moonglow is Chabon at his most
moving and inventive"--

Gentlemen of the road by Michael Chabon(
Book
)58
editions published
between
2007
and
2011
in
3
languages
and held by
2,597 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In the Kingdom of Aran, in the Caucasus Mountains in 950 A.D., two adventurers wander the region, plying their trade as swords
for hire, until they become involved in a bloody coup in the medieval Jewish empire of the Khazars as bodyguards for a fugitive
prince

The mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon(
Book
)71
editions published
between
1987
and
2011
in
6
languages
and held by
2,496 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This summer Art Bechstein graduates from college and finds himself poised on the brink of freedom and limitless possibilities

Wonder boys by Michael Chabon(
Book
)71
editions published
between
1995
and
2017
in
7
languages
and held by
2,468 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A funny novel on two college friends who relive their youth by getting up to all sorts of tricks during a literary conference.
One is a professor who is writing a novel, the other is his editor. Both left college with high hopes of making a name, hopes
which have not materialized. By the author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Summerland by Michael Chabon(
Book
)46
editions published
between
2001
and
2017
in
4
languages
and held by
2,428 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help
a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy

Spider-man 2 by Jasmine Jones(
Visual
)42
editions published
between
2002
and
2017
in
6
languages
and held by
2,227 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, is desperately trying to balance his dual identities. Relationships with all those he holds
dear are unraveling, and he encounters a new foe, Doctor Octopus. Peter must use all his powers to stop this diabolical madman

The final solution : a story of detection by Michael Chabon(
Book
)53
editions published
between
2003
and
2017
in
5
languages
and held by
1,995 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
An eighty-nine-year-old former detective in rural England becomes involved with a young refugee from Nazi Germany whose sole
companion, an African grey parrot, spews out a series of numbers that could hold the key to a dangerous secret

John Carter by Andrew Stanton(
Visual
)39
editions published
between
2012
and
2015
in
3
languages
and held by
1,843 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A war-weary former military captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict.
It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its
people rests in his hands

Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands by Michael Chabon(
Book
)21
editions published
between
2008
and
2011
in
English
and held by
1,433 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock
Holmes to Cormac McCarthy. Throughout, Chabon energetically argues for a return to the thrilling, chilling origins of storytelling,
rejecting the false walls around "serious" literature in favor of a wide-ranging affection

The astonishing secret of Awesome Man by Michael Chabon(
Book
)11
editions published
between
2011
and
2013
in
English and Hebrew
and held by
1,416 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Follow the adventures of the capped crusader, Awesome Man

A model world and other stories by Michael Chabon(
Book
)32
editions published
between
1991
and
2014
in
English and French
and held by
1,171 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A collection of short stories includes "A Model World", Millionaires", and a series of tales about a young boy experiencing
the pain of his parents imminent divorce

Pops : fatherhood in pieces by Michael Chabon(
Book
)14
editions published
between
2018
and
2019
in
English
and held by
1,089 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"For the September 2016 issue of GQ, Michael Chabon wrote a piece about accompanying his son Abraham, then thirteen, to Paris
Men's Fashion Week. Possessed with a precocious sense of style, Abe was in his element chatting with designers he idolized
and turning a critical eye to the freshest runway looks of the season. Chabon Sr., whose interest in clothing stops at 'thrift-shopping
for vintage western shirts or Hermès neckties, ' sat idly by, staving off yawns and fighting the impulse that the whole thing
was a massive waste of time. Despite his own indifference, however, what gradually emerged as Chabon ferried his son to and
from fashion shows was a deep respect for his son's passion. The piece quickly became a viral sensation. With the GQ story
as its centerpiece, and featuring six additional essays plus an introduction, Pops illuminates the meaning, magic, and mysteries
of fatherhood as only Michael Chabon can"--Jacket

Werewolves in their youth : stories by Michael Chabon(
Book
)27
editions published
between
1999
and
2011
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
1,027 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Stories on a variety of subjects. The title story in on boys playing at werewolves, Son of the Wolfman is on a husband's reaction
when his childless wife decides to keep the baby from a rape, and Mrs. Box is on a man who tries to rob his ex-wife's grandmother.
By the author of Wonder Boys

The Yiddish policemen's union by Michael Chabon(
Recording
)25
editions published
between
2006
and
2016
in
English and No Linguistic content
and held by
1,001 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer
Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addled chess prodigy

Telegraph Avenue : a novel by Michael Chabon(
Recording
)22
editions published
between
2012
and
2016
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
961 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All's well until a former NFL quarterback,
one of the country's richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue.
Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding
Archy's untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime

Moonglow : a novel by Michael Chabon(
Recording
)18
editions published
in
2016
in
English
and held by
838 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement
in a mail-order novelty company, World War II, and the space program

Superheroes : a never-ending battle(
Visual
)6
editions published
in
2013
in
English
and held by
803 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Examines the dawn of the comic book genre and its progenitors, as well as the evolution of the characters that leapt from
the pages over the last 70 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. It chronicles how these 'disposable diversions'
were subject to intense government scrutiny for their influence on American children and how they were created in large part
by immigrants whose fierce loyalty to a new homeland laid the foundation of a multi-billion-dollar industry